Chocolate Amaretto Cake

• 1 pkg. chocolate devil's food cake mix
• 1 small pkg. instant chocolate pudding mix
• 4 eggs
• 1 cup milk
• 1-1/2 oz. Amaretto liqueur
• 1/2 cup vegetable or canola oil
• 1 cup semi sweet chocolate chips
• 1 cup fresh raspberries (optional)
• 1/2 cup seedless raspberry jam (optional)
• Whipped cream (optional)

Glaze

• 1 stick butter
• 3/4 cup sugar
• 1/2 cup Amaretto

Preheat oven to 325 degrees. Combine first 6 ingredients and blend well. Stir in chips. Grease and flour a bundt pan. Pour batter into the prepared pan.

Bake for 1 hour or until toothpick comes out clean.

Melt glaze ingredients in a saucepan or microwave. Pour 2/3 of glaze over top of cake while cake is hot from oven and still in pan. Allow cake to remain in pan for 25 minutes. Remove cake from pan and drizzle with remaining glaze.

When I make this cake, I present it on my grandmother's pedestal cake stand which looks a lot like the one below.

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I like to fill the middle of the cake with fresh raspberries. Then I make a raspberry puree by melting the jam in the microwave.

Each lucky guest gets a plate with some of the puree, a slice of cake, a few berries and some whipped cream. Wha-la!

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